Karl Radek quotes
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“Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it.”
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“If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear all at once.”
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“The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.”
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“Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of which have independent, varying interests, sometimes opposed to each other.”
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“The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also by actions.”
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“In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country.”
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“A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action.”
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“Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses.”
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“The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly.”
-- Karl Radek
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Source : A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.96, Penguin
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Source : A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.524, Macmillan
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Source : Interview with Michael Jarrett, www2.york.psu.edu. November 8, 1987.
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“What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.”
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“Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life.”
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